Lathe Walker

Ben the Viking, this post is for you and it will hopefully help clear up the technique used to produce the last project “Forest Turning”. With this new post , I turned a vessel in the middle of the board from only one side so it should be easy to see. I also filled the bolt holes I made to attach the “jig” to the faceplate with contrasting fill to make it clear for the viewer (sort of) as to how it is done. I have re-photographed this piece from all angles to give you a better view of the process that went into it. Here I also have not identified the wood species leaving it for you to label. I think this one might be easier to identify because it is a LITTLE more common than the still unknown specie used in “Forest Turning” The bark on the sides might help put the finger on it. The reddish color is not from the finish (butcher’s wax)

Best guess so far for the last project (“Forest Turning”) has been by Mike as Goncalo Alves ?? but I don’t know if he is right or not…could well be… The only thing that confuses me is that the black wood is only in the ‘heart wood’ and the sapwood is the dull gold you saw. And of course “Moment hit the nail directly with his guess on the tool used in the technique !

respectfully submitted Don Schneider, Havana Fl. porchfish studio

-- The pig caught under the fence is always the one doing all the squealing !

I’m the old coot Charlie LOL and sometimes a fart as well. Dan well done buddy nice work.This is a dangerous thing to do you have as always done a great job once again so I say go immediately to the top of the class room. Alistair ps what is a coot anyway? seriously I never heard of one is it a bird?

” coot” I always understood it to mean, when i’ve heard the word used in contexts, that the word refers to someone who is ‘Addled ’ , ‘Touched ’ , P – Q – Lee – R , and the like , down here in TENNESSEE WILLIAMS land . It might be the name of a bird also , i do not know.

Ok, guess I will have to expose my ignorance. Did you do this by attaching the board to the face plateand turning the bump, then chucking the bump to turn the hollow, or did you use spacing blocks to attach the bump to the face plate and turn the hollow that way. Either way, if you start with a realslow rpm to balance it and move up the helicopter sound and terror curve should not be too bad.Would you show a better picture and name of the machine you did this on? Thank you for sharing.

laminated a big block on 36 ” piece then glued a 2nd 36”piece on top mounted the double propeller on my homemade jig w/4 6” 3/8 ” carriage bolts tuned the whole thing , then how did I make one cut on the bandsaw to laminate the 3 legged piece you see… it is Florida Chinaberry. called lots of other names in other parts of the country, but most common name is china berry, Melia Azedarach.

-- The pig caught under the fence is always the one doing all the squealing !